St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-05
TIE DEs MONIES SERIES.
Reference TO Some OF the lnaccu-
racies of The '.Official ScOre.''

Reference 10 Some of the Hnoccu-
racies of the '.Official Score"
Special to the Globe.
Dies MONIES, Ia, May 1.-The st. Paul
base bail boys suffered veritable Waterloo
IN their first series with the Des Moines
,eam, the last game Of which was played
Yesterday. The local club has proved itself
20 be much stronger than was antlcl-
pated. although its most sanguine supporters
lid not at any time, until the end of the
ninth inning of the last game. expect to see
the st. Paul club loose all the games.
Those who have read, the official score i'll
detail, are not much wiser than if it had
never been published, as it is full
If inaccuracies and does great
Injustice to the st. Paul players in many
respects. Although the home team did not
fail to receive full credit for all the playing
they did, and right here | will remark that
it would be better for DeS MoineS had they
an official scorer who was unprecedented in
base ball matters and who thoroughly
understood the game, for, judg-
ing from the official reports that
have been made Of the DeS Moines-St.
Paul games, there must be either lack of
knowledge OF partial feeling somewhere.
In the game last Saturday st. Paul was
gwen nine base hits when thirteen were
made, and in yesterdays game the
home team was credited with
seventeen base hits Off Viau.
1t may be that the intentions of the scorer
were all right, but if they were he certainly
has very indefinite conception of what
constitutes a base hit, as but ten safe hits
were made by DeS Moines, and only one of
their players given his base
on balls. Stockwell was also given
passed ball. but the one
which passed Sage and allowed one of the
ST. Paul boys to reach second, was not
charged to him in the summary. In Mon
days game Campbell struck out four OF the
st. Pauls, and SOwders was given but the
same number. although eight of the Des
Moines team agitated the atmos-
phere four times without finding
the ball. An occasional error in giving
players credit for what they do or don't do
may be overlooked, but when the figures
come so far from being correct, it savors
very much on the intentional. Our
boys did not complain, however,
of losing game. until yester-
day, when the rank decision of the
umpire made it impossible to restrain. and.
if what | hear is true. and [ have good
reason to believe it is Mr.. Daily was not in
condition yesterday which a man ought
to be III who is called upon to exercise
good Judgment and render impartial
decisions. However, the people of st. Paul
have no reason to condemn the team for
losing these games, and if they knew the
circumstances under which they were
PLAYED, and had had the benefit of
correct and unbiased scores, their
opinion of thee club would be far
different from what it probably is.
Stockwell was compelled to catch all three
games owing to Callender's sickness, which
confined him to his room most of the time,
and he acquitted himself we'll in every one
of them. Crooks has been on the sick
list also. and was not displaced
by Sow derS, as the Des Moines
papers stated last evening. and
both he and Calender will be in trim for
the game at La Crosse tomorrow. We leave
for La Crosse this morning and open the
series there tomorrow; but before quitting
Des Moines the boys have registered a
solemn VOW that the next time they de-
part from here they will be more than even
with the local team. B. w. l..
Home from Des M Dimes.
After what seems to the public a rather
unpleasant excursion to Des Mones, lasting
through three consecutive defeats, Manager
BARNES anu lll6 lllcIl NnOiU uC MS nlreQ 10
play base ball this season slept
in ST. Paul last night. Several lovers
of the national game who went
down TO see the fun the st. Paul team was
going to have with the men from Iowa,
also returned and give for their reason fol-
their presence here that there were nc
takers against St. Paul for the first day OF
two, and they saved up enough for car fare
after that" The failure of the st. Paul
men to win a game is said by those
who witnessed the three exhibitions
10 have been due to 'hard
luck" as the first two games clearly be-
longed to them, but were given away by
costly errors at critical points Some kick
is made that the scorers who sent out the
published reports of the games either did
not know their business or made errors in
copy" For instance, they say that in
stead of seventeen hits being made off Viau
in the last game there were but
eleven, and that Stockwell caught
each Of the games, Callendar,
who was reported to have caught the Sec
ond. not being in condition to go behind
the bat at all. The team will leave at G
o'clock this morning for La Crosse, where
it will play this afternoon. Weber has
been released.
North western Players ReI sed.
N Secretary Quin, of the Northwestern
i league. has issued circular in which he
Y announces that Visner, Allen and Camel
.,yAave been released by Minneapolis, the
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